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India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2017

INNOVATE WITH INDIA, CHANGE THE WORLD!

Texas Instruments in collaboration with Department of Science and Technology (DST) proudly
announce the DST & Texas Instruments India Innovation Challenge Design Contest 2017 anchored by
NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and supported by MyGov. The contest is
open for all Indian engineering students pursuing undergraduate, postgraduate&Doctoral degrees with
Indian engineering colleges.

Texas Instruments (TI) invites all student innovators, thinkers and makers of the country to join the
revolution, who have a dream to create something new, aspire to make a difference, contribute to
Indias success towards becoming an Innovation Hub and strengthen Make in India Program.

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Give your ideas a jump-start by sculpting your innovation with technical support from Texas
Instruments, business mentorship from IIMB, funding and prizes of INR 3.8 crores from DST& TI

Design- using Innovative products with technical Incubate - with mentors from Indias smartest
mentorship & resources from TI brains from IIMB

Launch - your product with funding and prizes

from DST& TI

DISCLAIMER
Texas Instruments reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, suspend this contest
and modify the rules, prizes & funding related to the contest without prior notice. In no event shall TI or
any other organizers be liable for any claims, losses, expenses or damages, arising out of or in
connection with the foregoing.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

The contest is open for all Indian engineering students pursuing undergraduate,
postgraduate&Doctoral degrees with Indian engineering colleges.

All the participants must be Indian Nationals

TI will be providing TI tools worth up to USD 200 for each team free of cost. You must use all TI
devices in your solution.

CONTEST STRUCTURE

Qualifying Round (July 2017 Nov 2017)

Phase I (Jul 2017 Sep 2017)

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All the participating teams are expected to submit the Participation Form below to enter into the
Phase I of the Qualifying Round. The submissions will be reviewed by a panel of domain experts
against two categories Business Potential and Technical Innovationand the shortlisted teams
will enter the Phase II of Qualifying Round. The shortlisted teams will be announced by
September 30, 2017.

Awards: Participation Certificate from TI & NSRCEL, IIMB (Only for Eligible Proposals)

Phase II (Oct 2017 Nov 2017)

Qualified teams from Phase I will advance to Phase II and are expected to submit a detailed
proposal document. These teams will also be mentored online by experts from IIM Bangalore to
prepare their proposal. Teams must submit the proposal by Oct 30th, 2017. The proposals will be
reviewed by a panel of experts and the shortlisted teams will enter the quarterfinals of the
contest. The shortlisted teams will be announced by November 30, 2017

Awards: Participation Certificate from TI & NSRCEL,IIMB (Only for Eligible Proposals)

Quarter Finals (Dec 2017 Apr 2018)

Teams entering quarterfinals will be given an opportunity to convert their proposed idea into a
hardware prototype. TI will be providing TI tools worth up to USD 200 for each team free of cost.
In this round of the contest, teams are expected to create a hardware prototype as a proof of
concept of their idea and submit the following by Mar 31, 2018

a. Project report / a technical paper.

b. Video demonstration of their prototype.
The submissions will be reviewed by a panel of experts and shortlist teams will be announced by
April 30, 2018

Awards: Participation Certificate from TI & NSRCEL, IIMB

Semi Finals (May 2018 June 2018)

Shortlisted teams will advance to Semifinals of the India Innovation Challenge. The Semifinalist
teams will be invited to the Regional Demonstration and Evaluation event for live demonstration
and evaluation of their project. These events will be held in June 2018 and shortlisted teams for
Finals will be identified byJune30, 2018.

Awards: Certificate of Excellence from TI & NSRCEL, IIMB

Cash Prizes from TI for each team

Finals (July 2018 August 2018)

Each selected team for Finals will receive Product Development Fund from DST for field testing
and prototyping. Select finalist teams will be invited to Final Evaluation event in August 2018 and
top teams will be selected for Incubation at IIMBangalore. Top teams will receive additional seed
fund from DST to launch their startup.
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Awards: Certificate of Excellence from TI & NSRCEL, IIMB

Cash Prizes from TI for each team
Cash Prize for Best Women team
Funding from DST

IMPORTANT DATES

Qualifying Round Phase I Submission Sep 10 2017

Qualifying Round Phase I Results Sep 30 2017

Qualifying Round Phase II Submission Oct 30 2017

Qualifying Round Phase II Results Nov 30 2017

Shipment of tools to Quarterfinal teams Dec 2017

Quarterfinals Interim Submission Feb 10 2018

Quarterfinals Final Submission Mar 31 2018

Quarterfinals Round Results Apr 30 2018

Semifinals Results Jun 30 2018

Finals Event Aug 2018

APPLICATION PROCESS

Team Leader must follow the below steps to participate

Create an account on MyGov https://www.mygov.in

Go to website https://innovate.mygov.in and click on the "INDIA INNOVATION CHALLENGE" icon.

This will direct you to contest page
On the "INDIA INNOVATION CHALLENGE" contest page, scroll to the participate section and click
on Login to Participate. Enter the login credentials and youll be redirected to home page of
website https://innovate.mygov.in
Click on the "INDIA INNOVATION CHALLENGE" icon AGAIN to be redirected to contest webpage
On the "INDIA INNOVATION CHALLENGE" contest page, scroll towards the end of page to the
submission form
You will see ~10 questions with fields to enter your answers
You are advised to fill the answers to the questions with as much detail and specificity as
possible. Do NOT provide generic answers

Verify all the fields and your team details before submitting the form. You will not be allowed to make
any edits post your submission.
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Upon successful submission, you will receive a confirmation email.

For any additional information, you will be contacted via email.

All correspondence shall be through email or SMS on mobile number provided by you at the time of
registration. Organizers are not liable in case of SMS/ email delivery failures.

Note: All members of the team must have a MyGov and MyTI account to receive emails from
organizers.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

Certificates from TI &NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Participation Certificate in Qualifying Round & Quarterfinals

Certificate of Excellence in Semifinals and Finals

Certificate after Incubation at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Overall Prizes and Funding of INR 3.8 Crores

Opportunity for a team to win INR 32 Lakhs for their team

Cash Prize for Best Women team

SELECTION CRITERIA

The evaluation will be based on the evaluation framework designed by IIMB in collaboration with TI.
Business Potential and Technical Innovation forms the base of the evaluation framework. The
evaluation panel will be comprised of stalwarts from Startup Ecosystem, Industry Leaders and Domain
experts.

GENERAL GUIDELINES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Contest is held in English throughout. All relevant information, including the online registration
form, is in English. Consequently, each individual participant (Entrants) must be proficient in
English.
All prizes will be awarded and paid in INR to the Team Leader of a qualifying team. The Team
Leader is obliged to make payment in the applicable amount to each member of his or her team. TI
will not in any way be responsible for the division of the prizes among the members of the team.

Taxes are the sole responsibility of the teams receiving prizes. Prizes may be subject to tax
reporting and other purposes.Applicable team-members agree to supply TI with any necessary
information to affect the same and to fully cooperate in fulfilling all applicable legal requirements.
By making a submission in the contest, all teams warrant and represent that to the best of their
knowledge, their submission is original and does not violate or misappropriate any third party trade
secret, know-how, copyright, patent or other intellectual property right. Entrants also warrant and
represent that there are no obligations of any nature, legal or otherwise, which would prohibit,
restrict, or interfere with their participation in the Contest or submission of their design report, and
agree to obtain any necessary clearances, authorizations and/or approvals prior to participation.
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The Entrants agree that no information submitted by the Entrants will be treated by TI as
confidential, including without limitation any of the information set forth in Section 7. For the
avoidance of doubt, some information submitted by the Entrants may be considered proprietary,
such as information that may attract intellectual property rights including without limitation,
copyrights, trademarks, patents, any kind of inventions, innovation or novel ideas. However, by
entering this Contest, the Entrants expressly waive their right to have this proprietary information
kept confidential.
Each team and each Entrant hereby grant DST, TI and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide,
perpetual, and royalty-free right and license to publish their project reports, designs and other
information submitted, or any portion or modification thereof, in connection with Texas Instruments
products, technical or marketing publications, advertisements or promotional activities, including
without limitation TI or third party technical articles, data sheets, application notes, reference
designs or internet publications. TI reserves the right to publish the designs without attribution.
Except for these limited rights to publish, TI does not obtain any other ownership, rights or licenses
in any of the students, teams or Universitys intellectual property or confidential information.
DATA PROTECTION, CONSENT TO THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA: Personal data (as
hereinafter defined) provided by the Entrants and the Faculty Mentor during the Contest will be used
by TI, as well as by service providers (for e.g. website hosting services) engaged by TI as data
processors, for the purpose of the Contest. The Entrants and all other participating parties including
without limitation the Faculty Mentors, agree that any personal data, which shall mean any data
identifying, without limitation, its owner, by name, NRIC number, correspondence address, email
address and contact number (Personal Data) which is disclosed by any individual or obtained by
the TI or its Contractual Partners, inclusive of their designated vendors (Workers and Vendors)
prior to or during the course of performance of this Contest, shall be processed, maintained,
disclosed or destroyed in accordance with the relevant terms of consent set out in the Contest
Terms and Conditions. For the avoidance of doubt, every Entrant and individual who submits his or
her data for the purpose of participating in this Contest shall be deemed to have given express
consent for the processing, use, retention or disclosure of such Personal Data for the purposes set
out above and in Section 6.
NO LICENSES UNDER ANY TECHNOLOGY, TRADE SECRETS, KNOW-HOW, OR ANY
COPYRIGHTS, PATENTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF
TI, ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY THIRD PARTY ARE GRANTED TO ENTRANTS UNDER THE
CONTEST.
By entering the Contest, each Entrant agrees to release TI and its affiliates from and against any
losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind arising from (i) an exclusion or
disqualification of such Entrant pursuant to these Rules; (ii) late, lost, misdirected, or unsuccessful
efforts to notify winners of any prize; (iii) forfeiture of a prize and the selection of an alternate winner;
(iv) late, lost, delayed, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible or unintelligible entries; (v)
telephone, electronic, hardware or software program, network, Internet, or computer malfunctions,
failures or difficulties of any kind; (vi) failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions;
(vii) any condition caused by events beyond TIs control that may cause the Contest to be disrupted
or corrupted; and (viii) any injuries, losses or damages of any kind relating to participation in this
Contest.

TI reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or (temporarily) suspend this Contest where
required by law or if there is an impediment to the performance of this contract due to a breach by
any of the TIs contractual partners, or a delay in funding, or a force majeure event, or it becomes
technically corrupted or if for any reason the Internet portion of the Contest is not capable of running
as planned, including infections by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention,
fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond TIs control, which corrupt or affect the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest. TI further reserves the
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right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify anyone found to have manipulated the Contest or its
operation. In addition, TI at its sole discretion may disqualify any Entrant at any stage of the Contest
without being required to specify any reasons in that regard.

In respect of any suits, actions, proceedings, claims or disputes in relation to this contest, the courts
situated at Bangalore, India shall enjoy sole jurisdiction.

CORRESPONDENCE

Any correspondence with participant will be done through an email provided by the participant at time
of filling the application form. Organizers are not liable in case of email delivery failures. For any
queries, please send mail at: ti-india-dc@list.ti.com

PARTICIPATION FORM (QUALIFYING ROUND)

*As part of Phase I proposal submission, you are expected to answer following questions with
as details and specificity as possible. Do NOT provide generic answers.

*Once the form is submitted, you will not be allowed to make any changes. You can save the
submission as Draft to login again and make edits.

1. Enter your Project Title

2. Name of the College.

3. How did you come to know about the contest?

Contest Posters in College
Social Media (Facebook etc.)
Faculty Members
Others

4. Describe the problem you are solving.

5. Who is your customer? [Age Group, Income levels, geography etc.]

6. Why does solving the problem matters. Describe the impact of your solution in terms of efficiency,
throughput, cost saving, etc.
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7. What is customer using right now to solve the problem (your current competition)?

8. What is your core technical innovation? Share details on technical differentiation of your product
compared to current competition.

9. What TI products do you intend to use in the design of your solution. Share the part numbers with
TI.COM links

10. How does your proposed innovation meets the Make in India initiative.

11. Team Members (2-5 members) : +

Team Leader Name*

Date of Birth *

Mobile *

10 digit mobile no.

Email *

pradeep.k.verma002@gmail.com

Nationality General Guidelines

Indian

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Member Name*

Date of Birth *

Mobile *

10 digit mobile no.

Email *

Nationality

Indian

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